Disruption of the Wolbachia surface protein gene wspB by a transposable element in mosquitoes of the Culex pipiens complex (Diptera, Culicidae)

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 143-154

  Sanogo, Yibayiri O ^a,b   Dobson, S L ^b   Bordenstein, S R ^c   Novak, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex pipiens complex; Gene disruption; Insertion element; Molecular marker; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WSP PROTEIN, WOLBACHIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSPOSON; UNITED STATES; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULEX; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SYMBIOSIS; UNITED STATES; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 33847723080     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2006.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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